Means for beating of bagasse for the imbibition of same in cane-sugarmaking industry



, H. SEGUCHI v MEANS FOR BEATING OF BAGASSE FOR THE IMBIBITION .OF SAMEIN CANESUGAR MAKLNG INDUSTRY Filed July 20- .1926

March 20, 1928.

Patented Mar. 20, 1928;

UNITED STA'l jE-Sr PATEN rms.

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My iinvention relates to improvements in means for beatingbagassebetween two ad'- jacent series of milling rollers'for the purposeof thoroughly. saturating the' bagasse. 5 The-principal object oi thisinvention is-to I break and beat the compact mass of be asse as it isconveyed from one series of mi ling rollers to the next series ofmilling rollers by meansof apparatus designed to maintain a uniform-andcomplete mixing of'the'up- "per, midd1e and lower partsof'the layer of.compressed-bagasse with each other, and at the sa-me timea thorough andeven sprinklingo'ffwater on all'parts of the bagassee.

" to'ultimately'e ffect a high degree of juice extraction. I

- ,Qther objects as well as the nature, characteristic features andscope of the invention will be more readily apparent from the .fol-

lowing description [taken in connection with the drawings. I

In' the accompanying'drawings Fig. is a l vertical sectional view of anembodiment of the apparatus according to this invention ap- 'p1ied onthebagasse con yeyor between two adjacent series of crushing rollers.Fig. 2 is a front view of the rotatable beater which is designed to beatthe bagasse during the sprinkling thereof.

I Heretofore it has been diflicult a3 main-' tain a uniform'and completemixing of the upper, middle and lower partsofalayer of bagasse withxeachother, as bagasseonce crushed and extracted of juice by any one; seriesof crushing rollers while being con-j veyed to the next/ seriesof-crushing rollers in the form of a compressed mass always" maintainedsuch'state andi'cou'ld notbe ef-- v 5 a fs'craper (5.)1sja'cu1vedplate-(7) of alength fectively sprinkled.

40 Moreover it has previously ficult to thoroughly saturate all .pai'tsof a layer of bagasse with, water, for by machines hithertoin use thewater has been usually.

s'howeredonlyupdn the upper surface of a '4 layer of bagasseorsupplieditdboth the upper and lower surfiaces of the same. In theformer case, thateis when the water was lower surfaces of the bagasS'eIt WQul 11 reachrtheiiniddle part of the same in spiteba'ga-sse sothatnot only was the efficiency of the saturation of the bagasse impairedbutv also the extraction of juice was greatly decreased. v 1 a Theimportant object of this inventionQisj .to eliminatethesedefects, thatis, to achieve a uniform and complete mixing of 'the' up per, middle andlower parts ofa layer of bagasse with each other and at the same time'to gain a "uniform penetration of water I even through the middle partof a layer of bagasse so as to consequently permiigof a'highefiiciencyof juice extraction.

By this invention bag asse whichis sent forward from each seriesofmilling rollers is effectively crushed and beaten bygeach heater andSiIJUltttneOHSly water is showered upon bagasse at two-places,jnamely,at the front and rear parts of the said beater.

In the accompanyingdrawings,two series of-crushlngrollers (1) (2) (3)are provide'd-ao while a bagasse scraper (4) attached to the uppermillingproller (1) and'another" bagasse scraper. (5) is attached to therear milling roller (3) -A:beater (6) forjthei' bagasse is providedthelength of the same being equal to that of the milling rollersjaiidisadapted to be rotated ata relativelyhigh speedlzofw-about 500revolutions per minute- The" saidgfb beater is situated =at-the rear-end'oit escraper :(5) while arran ed beneath the said heaterandsecure'd to lie correSponding-to'that" of the heater and scraper;Water supply pipe 's1(8)- are. nowj provided and are perforatedlongitudinally 79 and are; arranged above the'beateruand slightly inadvance and rearwardly thereof 7 so-.as to thoroughly saturate-all ofthefbagasse,.as itiis bein beaten. A curved cover-- 'ing and deflectingplate (9),gis supported o over the foremost pipe section (8 and theheater (6) to prevent dispersion ofg; the

.bagasse, which is pushed out backward irom the rotating beater (6).'1he,.p1ate'(9)" tarminates short of the rear so as not to interferewith e spr "of i-pe section .(8) 5 the beaten bagasse with water. Infact the curved end of the plate deflects the beaten bagasse to a pointdirectly beneath the perforations in the rearmost pipe section (8).

' A bagasse conveyor (10) is arranged one sethickness, are of equaldiameter and are keyed to a common shaft 12 and in addition are eachprovided with three holes disposed at equal distances with respect toeach other. w

Between adjacent disks (11) there are inserted three steel beating heads(13) as shown in Fig. 2, having the desired length, width andthickness,and each has a hole of equal diameter to the holes on the disk (11).Through these aligning holes there are arranged three elongated bolt andnut arrangements (14:) (-15) (16) as shown in Fig. 1 and -F ig. 2 so asto hold the parts together as a unit.

The improvedapparatus is set up, and as the be'ater is rotated, bagassewhich have:

been pushed out of'milling rollers will 'be beaten andi'bro'ken up'b thesaid heater,

whose speed is tentimes t at of the speed of ba-gasse after it haspassed the end of the scraper (5). At the entrance and the exit of thebeater the bagasse absorbs the water uniformly and completelyl After themixing of the upper, middle and lower parts ;of the bagasse andthesaturation of the same with water the bagasse falls down on thebagasse conveyor (10) and is carried to the next-serles of nnlllngrollers.

It is-bcl'ieved in view of the foregoing .that a further detaileddescription of the inv'entionis entirely unnecessary. Likewise it isbelieved that the advantages will be appreciated.

Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention whatis claimed as new and desired to be secured by LettersPatent is 1. Improved means for beating and saturating bagassecomprising in combination milling means, conveying means. situatedrearwardly thereof, scraping means operatively associated with the.milling means, beat-mg means operatively arranged between the scrapingmeans and conveying means, sprinkling means operatively arranged overthe heating means and positioned slightly forwardly"and rearwardlythereof to effect thereon saturation of the bagasse at said points, andcombined covering and deflecting means in operative 'relation witlrthesprinkling and beatingmeans;

2. lmprmed means-as claimed in vclaim 1, wherein 'the heating meansincludes a rotatable rollenand connected to the rear of the scrapingmeans and extending tothe lower portion of the conveyor ineans andcurvedt'o formto the contour of the beater.

3. Improved means as claimed inclaim 1,- wherein the beating meansincludes a rotatable roller, a curved plate situated therebe neath, andwherein the sprinkling means includes longitudinally perforated pipesfor sprinkling the baga sse as it enters-and leaves the beater.

4 Improved means for beatingand saturating bagasse'comprising incombination, milling means, beating means positioned rearwardly thereof,including a rotatable beat-in roller anda curved plate arranged beneat1the'roller and. between which and the roller the bagae is beaten afterit leaves the milling means, a sprinkling means positioned above theheater and including longitudinally perforated pipe sections forsaturating the ba-gasse as itlente'rs and leaves the beating roller,-anda curved covering and deflecting plate connected to one of the pipesections and arranged over said pipe section andthe beater,substantiallyas and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

' HIROMU SEGUCHL-

